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Nate the Great and the Stolen Base (Nate the Great Detective Stories)

by Marjorie Weinman Sharmat (Author)

Nate the Great and the Stolen Base (Nate the Great Detective Stories)
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Reading Level: 2nd − 3rd Grade
Series: Nate the Great Detective Stories
cms Common Sense Media Review

Beginning readers are introduced to the detective mystery genre in these chapter books. Perfect for the Common Core, kids can problem-solve with Nate, using logical thinking to solve mysteries!

Rosamund's baseball team has a very unusual second base--Oliver's gloopy purple plastic octopus. But one morning . . . it's gone! Nate the Great must pick up clues so he can find the missing octopus and go up to bat! Check out the Fun Activities section in the back of the book!

Visit Nate the Great and Sludge! NatetheGreatBooks.com Subtle humor sparkles through the young detective's narration and his interactions with his friends.

Budding mystery fans will line up for this one.--School Library Journal

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Kids will like Nate the Great.

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Nate, Sludge, and all their friends have been delighting beginning readers for years.

Review quotes

Praise for the Nate the Great Series:

"A consistently entertaining series." —Booklist

"Loose, humorous chalk and watercolor spots help turn this beginning reader into a page-turner." —Publishers Weekly

"They don't come any cooler than Nate the Great." —The Huffington Post
Marjorie Weinman Sharmat
MARJORIE WEINMAN SHARMAT has written more than 130 books for children and young adults, as well as movie and TV novelizations. Her books have been translated into twenty-four languages. The award-winning Nate the Great series, hailed in Booklist as "groundbreaking," has resulted in Nate's real-world appearances in many New York Times crossword puzzles, sporting a milk mustache in magazines and posters, residing on more than 28 million boxes of Cheerios, and touring the country in musical theater. Marjorie Weinman Sharmat and her husband, Mitchell Sharmat, have also coauthored many books, including titles in both the Nate the Great and the Olivia Sharp series.
Classification
Fiction
ISBN-13
9780440409328
Lexile Measure
530
Guided Reading Level
K
Publisher
Yearling Books
Publication date
February 19, 1994
Series
Nate the Great Detective Stories
BISAC categories
JUV019000 - Juvenile Fiction | Humorous Stories
JUV028000 - Juvenile Fiction | Mysteries, Espionage, & Detective Stories
JUV043000 - Juvenile Fiction | Readers | Beginner
Library of Congress categories
Baseball
Mystery and detective stories
Detectives
Nate the Great (Fictitious character)

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